Say homosexuality is sinful on Facebook - get thrown off university campus
NOT FIT TO BE A SOCIAL WORKER IF YOU THINK HOMOSEXUALITY IS SINFUL - LGBT AGENDA
Devout Christian, 40, who was thrown off a university social work course after he posted 'homosexuality is a sin' on Facebook to argue in the High Court that the ruling puts doctors and teachers at risk of disqualification.
Felix Ngole, 40, a devout Christian, posted 'homosexuality is a sin' on Facebook
He was kicked off his two-year Sheffield University social work course. A court ruled the decision did not infringe his human right to freedom of speech. During a request to appeal Mr. Ngole will argue other professionals' are at risk.
The human right to free speech could be at risk if a ruling against a devout Christian kicked off his university course for 'anti-gay' comments is not overturned, the former student will argue in the High Court next week.
Felix Ngole, a devout Christian from Barnsley, Yorkshire, was forced to leave his two-year social work masters at Sheffield University after he posted 'homosexuality is a sin' to Facebook.
The 40-year-old argued he had been unfairly punished for sharing his Christian believes and his removal from the course breached his human right to freedom of speech and thought, enshrined in the Europeans Convention on Human Rights.
He will appear at the Appeal Court on Tuesday, more than a year after Deputy High Court judge Rowena Collins-Rice found Mr. Ngole's rights to free speech had not been infringed by his removal from the course during a trial in London in October 2017.
During a request for appeal Paul Diamond, a barrister specializing in religious and human rights will suggest that regulators would, by implication, have to be given the powers of the Orwellian thought police to monitor social media accounts.
He is expected to argue that it would leave a fifth of the workforce vulnerable to the charge that they had breached their professional code of conduct if they expressed unpopular beliefs. There are more than 200 regulated professions in the UK.
Mr. Ngole posted 'homosexuality is a sin' and 'the devil has hijacked the constitution of the USA' on Facebook after Kim Davis, a county clerk from Kentucky, was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the introduction of same-sex marriage in 2015. Mr. Ngole also quoted a verse from Leviticus describing it as an 'abomination' during a discussion on a public Facebook page.
He commented: 'It is a wicked act and God hates the act; God hates sin and not man.' On November 11, 2015, a Sheffield University departmental investigating team met with Mr. Ngole.
At the meeting, he said he could still carry out the role of a social worker without being discriminatory. The university's lawyers said they had to consider the mature student's 'fitness to practice' and warned that his posts would damage public confidence in social workers.
His barrister Mr. Diamond plans to argue that the university should not have assumed that Mr. Ngole was wrong to express his beliefs. If he was entitled to express his religious views then he showed integrity by refusing to renounce them.
Felix Ngole, 40, a devout Christian, posted 'homosexuality is a sin' on Facebook
He was kicked off his two-year Sheffield University social work course. A court ruled the decision did not infringe his human right to freedom of speech. During a request to appeal Mr. Ngole will argue other professionals' are at risk.
The human right to free speech could be at risk if a ruling against a devout Christian kicked off his university course for 'anti-gay' comments is not overturned, the former student will argue in the High Court next week.
Felix Ngole, a devout Christian from Barnsley, Yorkshire, was forced to leave his two-year social work masters at Sheffield University after he posted 'homosexuality is a sin' to Facebook.
The 40-year-old argued he had been unfairly punished for sharing his Christian believes and his removal from the course breached his human right to freedom of speech and thought, enshrined in the Europeans Convention on Human Rights.
He will appear at the Appeal Court on Tuesday, more than a year after Deputy High Court judge Rowena Collins-Rice found Mr. Ngole's rights to free speech had not been infringed by his removal from the course during a trial in London in October 2017.
During a request for appeal Paul Diamond, a barrister specializing in religious and human rights will suggest that regulators would, by implication, have to be given the powers of the Orwellian thought police to monitor social media accounts.
He is expected to argue that it would leave a fifth of the workforce vulnerable to the charge that they had breached their professional code of conduct if they expressed unpopular beliefs. There are more than 200 regulated professions in the UK.
Mr. Ngole posted 'homosexuality is a sin' and 'the devil has hijacked the constitution of the USA' on Facebook after Kim Davis, a county clerk from Kentucky, was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the introduction of same-sex marriage in 2015. Mr. Ngole also quoted a verse from Leviticus describing it as an 'abomination' during a discussion on a public Facebook page.
He commented: 'It is a wicked act and God hates the act; God hates sin and not man.' On November 11, 2015, a Sheffield University departmental investigating team met with Mr. Ngole.
At the meeting, he said he could still carry out the role of a social worker without being discriminatory. The university's lawyers said they had to consider the mature student's 'fitness to practice' and warned that his posts would damage public confidence in social workers.
His barrister Mr. Diamond plans to argue that the university should not have assumed that Mr. Ngole was wrong to express his beliefs. If he was entitled to express his religious views then he showed integrity by refusing to renounce them.
